The Best Twitter Applications

Bored with just tweeting? Is the Twitter bug waning? (check all about Twitter here) Though I admit I am not much of a 'tweeting type twitter', I am rather a 'reading type twitter' and spend good part of my time reading other peoples tweets (does that make a peek-a-booer??). I have my own interesting tweet to-follow list (will post it sometime!) which I religiously follow for the sake of information and awareness.

Over the weekend I was wondering what all can be done on 'twitter' to make the Tweet-life a little bit easier. With the Open-Source Twitter API (check this web site), it is now easier to integrate ones favourite apps with Twitter.

Though there are hundreds of twitter apps out there, these are some of my favourites. Thought would name it top-ten-twitter apps, but put in just two extra to make it 12. Try them out and enjoy twitting. Catch me at : http://twitter.com/gantayet

Twitter Grade. A pretty interesting site that grades your twitter account. I was ranked 2,280,381out of 5,792,569 which is just about average :-/ Agree whole heartedly with the grading :-) from their web site:

"Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile. It looks at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers and the level to which you are engaging the community. It takes just a few seconds to generate your free report"

Twitter Ratio. This site calculates the Twitter 'Follower-to-Friend' Ratio - the TFF Ratio. (never thought of that!!). The results are pretty interesting. It also provides you a web-badge code which can be embedded in your web-site, blog etc. to proudly show off your TFF ratio.


Twitter Value. Another ego bursting site. It puts a value on your Twitter!! Well, if you feel bad post the 'valuation', try out your friends Tweet value too. I was valued at $3 - my web-worth!! Whereas Shashi Tharoor twitter was valued at an obscene $18157.00!!!

TweetCube. TweetCube allows you to share files on Twitter. TweetCube is 100% free to use, but the maximum file size you can upload is currently 10mb. You can upload as many files as you want. Files are deleted after 30 days.

Twixxer. Twixxer is a photo and video sharing component for Twitter.com users who are normally restricted to text-only updates that contain links to media. It is comprised of a browser add-on and a web service.

Twitpic. You guessed it. One more site to share your tweet pictures from the mobile or API.

Twitter Business Card.  Now you can send customised 'Business Cards' with your Tweets! Pretty simple to use and work with.

Tweet to Follow.  A nice site that helps you find like minded twitter whom you may follow!! just giver your twitter name, and you would see twitter-to-follow list!!


GeoChirp. As the name suggests, this site helps you for find twitter-users in a particular geographical area!! A very Twitter-GoogleMap mashup,  this has a very nice interface! Go get them - the twitters near your area :-)

Twitter Search. Find what's happening in twitter right now with this  Google-like web interface!!

Twitter Desktop. So by now if you have become a frenzied Twitter, the web interface would be a big pain. you would need a dedicated twitter client to organise and manage your Tweetings. This is your answer!! :-)

Twitter Screencast. You can easily create screencast and tweet them using 'Screenr'. Very easy to use and share!

For more and much more on 'Twitter' do visit http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ and get that tweet back in your life :-) !! 

Enjoy!!